Compress/Decompress Question

[Guest]

I have a situation where I will be getting compressed files downloaed from
multiple web services and web sites. Most of these files will contain XML.
I will need to uncompress these files, prior to loading the data into a
database table.

The only .NET documentation I can find to automate the decompression process
refers to the PassportIdentity.Compress method and/or the LZexpand.dll.

Are these my only options? Using these technologies to just unzip a file
makes me feel like I'm going yam hunting with a shotgun.

AlanS

 

[Eiríkur Fannar Torfason]

You can zip/unzip using the J# library. See:
http://codeproject.com/csharp/VmEasyZipUnZip.asp

The J# redistributables (for deploying your project) can be found here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vjsharp/downloads/howtoget/default.aspx

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I have a situation where I will be getting compressed files downloaed from
multiple web services and web sites. Most of these files will contain XML.
I will need to uncompress these files, prior to loading the data into a
database table.

The only .NET documentation I can find to automate the decompression process
refers to the PassportIdentity.Compress method and/or the LZexpand.dll.

Are these my only options? Using these technologies to just unzip a file
makes me feel like I'm going yam hunting with a shotgun.

Use SharpZipLib:

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/Default.aspx